This Sunday, the string orchestra Ensemble Franc will be performing their 2019 Winter Concert, conducted by Yuri Nitta and featuring oboe soloist Janne Korhonen of the Finnish National Opera Orchestra. The program features a combination of works by both Finnish and Japanese composers in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Finnish-Japanese diplomatic relations. Kai Shibuya '14 will be performing in the ensemble in the violin section.

Princeton alumni are encouraged to attend to support their fellow Tiger! Please wear your best Black and Orange for the Princeton picture we will take after the concert!

Date/Time: Sunday, February 3rd at 2:00 pm (Doors open from 1:30; concert anticipated to end at about 4:00 pm)

The Princeton Club of Japan will be holding its next gathering with Stanford on June 21st at Slainte in Ebisu. There will be an entrance fee (after which there will be finger food and unlimited drinks for the first 2.5 hours), but it will be casual enough for everyone to come and go as schedules permit. The event starts at 7:00 and will go until 10:00.

Telephone: 03-6809-0584***Please note: You may need to ring a doorbell in order to be let in.***

WHAT: Entrance Charge: 3,000 yen at the doorDrinks: Unlimited wine, beer, and soft drinks for the first 2.5 hours

DRESS: No dress code.

In the interests of getting a general headcount, if you're even slightly interested in going -- or if you should have any questions about the event -- please email Kai Shibuya '14 at kai.shibuya.14@gmail.com

Plan:We will visit major sights in Shinjuku on foot and have a lunch in the restaurant area of Takashimaya in Shinjuku starting around 11:30am or 12 noon.We will hold the event even in case of rain. In case of severe weather, we will notify you of cancellation via email.

Budget:Admission to some sights may require small fees.Approximately 1,500 to 2,500 yen per person for lunch, depending on menu item.(Restaurant TBD depending on number of participants)

The Princeton Club of Japan will be holding a meet-up event together with the Japan Stanford Association on July 14th at Slainte in Ebisu. The event will require a small entrance fee (in exchange for which there will be finger food and unlimited drinks for the first 2.5 hours) but will be casual enough for everyone to come and go as schedules permit. The event starts at 7:00 pm and will last until 10:00 pm.

***Please note: You'll need to ring a doorbell in order to be let in.***

WHAT: Entrance Charge: 3,000 yen at the door

Drinks: Unlimited

DRESS: No dress code.

In the interests of getting a general headcount, if you're even slightly interested in going -- or if you should have any questions about the event -- please email Kai Shibuya '14 at kai.shibuya.14@gmail.com.

It is once again time for the annual Osawa Welcome Party, this year honoring Jensen Lo ’18 as the Osawa Fellowship recipient.

As this is also a time when we like to get together Princetonians of all affiliations, whether alumni, graduate alumni, current students, or newly admitted students, feel free to send along this invitation to all those Princetonians, younger and older, you know in the area.

Cost: Kindly note that the Princeton Club of Japan will be subsidizing this event to allow as many members of our community to attend as possible. This is an all-you-can drink and buffet style meal, so the flat fee will take care of everything.

RSVP: Please confirm your attendance to Mary Gilstad ’15 with the following Google form: http://goo.gl/forms/svEHoKkIjGsxxYxg1 if possible by the end of this week, June 24. (I apologize it is such short notice! I will accept RSVPs through the weekend but please aim for this Friday.) If you have trouble with the RSVP form, email me at marygilstad.3@gmail.com with your name and number of people attending.

We are really looking forward to meeting and greeting, and celebrating Jensen’s arrival in Tokyo! (He just started teaching this week!)

Looking Skywards: The Search for Exoplanets

A Lecture by Princeton Astrophysics Professor Ed Turner

We are pleased to announce the inaugural lecture of the Princeton Club of Japan Lecture Series!

Lecture Overview A few thousand extrasolar planet or exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, have been discovered in the last 20 years. However, the "holy grail" goal of this branch of astrophysics and astrobiology is to discover and characterize in some detail an exoplanet as closely resembling the Earth as possibly. Ideally we would like to determine whether or not an Earth-like exoplanet has bodies of liquid water on its surface and even if harbors life of some type. These are very challenging objectives, to put it mildly, and it is likely to be decades before we can achieve them. Nevertheless, astronomers have identified plausible techniques for doing so, and this talk will describe the path forward toward learning if the stars in the neighborhood of the Sun are circled by worlds like our own. It will describe what we might be able to learn about such planets if they exist and how we expect to be able to do so.

Dinner Location: T.B.D.We are planning to find a location near the lecture hall. Plan on a budget of about 3,000 to 4,000 yen per person.

Please be sure to R.S.V.P to attend! To R.S.V.P, please email Kai Shibuya '14 at kai.shibuya.14@gmail.com

Send your name, affiliation, number of people attending in your party, and whether or not you plan to attend the dinner after the lecture If you have questions about this lecture program, please e-mail Hidekazu Oki '00 at hide.oki@gmail.com

Due to popular demand and in the spirit of encouraging more participation among young members of fellow alumni organizations in Japan, there will be another mixer to welcome the new season and likewise celebrate Halloween a bit early.

Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, UPenn, and Yale & Friends* will be gathering together this year at Ruby Jack's in Roppongi to socialize.

*This event is only open to alumni of the universities mentioned, along with their close friends. Please do not forward this invitation to other mailing lists.**For any additional inquiries, please contact us: Adam Thuc Nguyen @ nguyen.adam@post.harvard.edu & Stéphane E. Fouché @ sfouche@post.harvard.edu

Princeton in Asia is having a special event in Tokyo on Monday, October 19th. Thanks to the generosity of Betsy and Ed Rogers, PiA will be hosting the gathering at their home to connect and reconnect with members of the PiA family, welcome PiA's new Program Director for Japan, Audrey Jenkins, and celebrate the 2015-2016 class of fellows. Spouses or partners are welcome to attend as well.
Please RSVP to piaalum@princeton.edu by Tuesday, October 13.
The Details
Date: Monday, October 19th, 2015
Time: 6:30 P.M.-8:00 P.M.
Location: Takanawa Hills #703, 2-12-56 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0074
Nearest Station: Sengakuji or Shinagawa
Parking: Available
Map: Google or equivalent.
RSVP: Kindly RSVP by Tuesday, October 13 to piaalum@princeton.edu

The Princeton Club of Japan will be holding its next gathering with Stanford on July 23rd at Slainte in Ebisu. In addition to this, the event will feature live music with Kei Takayanagi from the Stanford side. An entrance fee (in exchange for which there will be finger food and unlimited drinks for the first 2.5 hours) will be required, but it will be casual enough for everyone to come and go as schedules permit. The event starts at 7:00 and will go until 10:00.

***Please note: You may need to ring a doorbell in order to be let in.***

WHAT: Entrance Charge: 4,000 yen at the door

Drinks: Unlimited wine, beer, and soft drinks for the first 2.5 hours

DRESS: No dress code.

In the interests of getting a general headcount, if you're even slightly interested in going -- or if you should have any questions about the event -- please email Kai Shibuya '14 at kai.shibuya.14@gmail.com

Soraya Umewaka's Lebanese documentary 'Tomorrow We Will See' (Bukra Minshouf) will be showing at Uplink cinema.

"Tomorrow We Will See" ("Bukra Minshouf") offers a window into Lebanon's flourishing creative culture through the perspective of ten Lebanese artists. A common trait that unites the artists is their talent of using art as a tool for transcending sectarian divisions and encouraging freedom of thought.

Film director, Soraya Umewaka (Class of '06) will be present for a short Q&A session after each screening and we will also have a Middle-Eastern music performance featuring aud guitar and qanun string instrument.

The Princeton Club of Japan will be holding its next gathering on Friday, May 15th at Slainte in Ebisu. The event will require a small entrance fee (in exchange for which there will be finger food and unlimited drinks for the first 2.5 hours) but will be casual enough for everyone to come and go as schedules permit. The event starts at 7:00 and will go until 10:00.

***Please note: You'll need to ring a doorbell in order to be let in.***

WHAT: Entrance Charge: 3,000 yen at the door

Drinks: Unlimited wine, beer, and soft drinks for the first 2.5 hours

DRESS: No dress code.

In the interests of getting a general headcount, if you're even slightly interested in going -- or if you should have any questions about the event -- please email Kai Shibuya '14 at kai.shibuya.14@gmail.com.

Adam Turner '88 will be holding talk about how companies use personal data.

Details and a form for submitting an RSVP can be found here, and directions can be found here.

In his book What Stays in Vegas, journalist Adam Tanner exposes the greatest threat to privacy today. It is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers and other firms are gathering data behind the scenes with little oversight from anyone. No company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment, a Las Vegas-based casino-entertainment company. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers. Caesars’ dogged data-gathering methods have been so successful that they have grown to become the world’s largest casino operator, and have inspired companies of all kinds to ramp up their own data mining in the hopes of boosting their targeted marketing efforts. The reality is that we live in an age where our personal information is harvested and aggregated whether we like it or not. And it is growing ever more difficult for those businesses that choose not to engage in more intrusive data gathering to compete with those that do. Tanner’s timely warning resounds: yes, there are many benefits to the free flow of all this data, but there is a dark side as well. With societal and legal boundaries on the use of personal data still largely undefined, the potential for abuse looms large. Biographical Information

Adam Tanner is a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is the author of “What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It,” published in September 2014. The Washington Post named the book one of 50 notable works of non-fiction in 2014. Reviews have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post and the Financial Times. He has been at Harvard since 2011, initially as a Nieman Fellow. From 1995-2011, he was a correspondent at Reuters, including service as bureau chief for the Balkans for 2008-2011, and San Francisco bureau chief from 2003-2008. The title of his Abe research project is: “Different Approaches in Japan and the United States in the Multi-Billion Dollar Hidden Trade in Our Private Medical Data.”

Cost: Free. BYOB (bring your own bento!, and a plastic sheet to sit on would also be helpful). And please remember to carry your own garbage home.

RSVP's are appreciated, but not necessary. Participation is unlimited.Email: bucj_hanami_2015@bucj.org

Komaba Koen is the site of the former Toshinari Maeda mansion, built in 1929. The lawn in front of this gorgeous Tudor style mansion is surrounded by about 150 cherry trees. During hanami, you can expect a smaller, less raucous crowd than the more famous hanami spots around town.

Komaba Koen is an 8 minute walk from Komaba Todai Mae Station on the Inokashira line (3 min. from Shibuya).

Tuesday, March 3, the Princeton Club of Japan will be one of many regional associations hosting a local, in‐person, networking event as part of Princeton’s Annual Global NetNight 2015.

This year, the Alumni Council Committee on Careers is partnering with the Office of Career Services and Princeton's new Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi for “Career and Life Vision: Define Your Legacy.”

Join us to participate in a round table discussion, and then stay to talk with fellow tigers.

For more about the event, the Office of Career Services has prepared this video.

Using concepts from their Career and Life Vision program, Pulin and his team will provide video segments and small group interactive exercises designed to help you discover new insights about yourself and what matters most to you. This is the same program that was launched on campus in January 2014, and has already reached hundreds of students and alumni.

When: Tuesday, March 37:30 – 9:30 p.m.Where: TBD: Somewhere in Central TokyoCost: ~3000 yenRSVP: Please RSVP by February 24If you have any questions, please feel free to reply to this email, or send them to Peyton Bowman '02 at pgbowman@gmail.com.